Ramblings and Weather Outside Today
It is going to high of 76 with chance of storms. Today I have to bring a computer and monitor over to Marley to install. That should be done today. The cart that was broke was shipped out yesterday which is good. Next Monday or Tuesday I can load everything onto and install it. You tell people to make sure everything works before their training / webinars guess what they don’t see if it works before their meeting. They were using a wrong logon and couldn’t access their network drive they had to. They know the logon but because the computer is in a different spot then normal they want to use a logon that is just for the training computers.
I always say that you need budgeting and planning skills. In couple of months I want to buy a house inorder for me to do that I need budgeting and planning skills. I need to pay my credit card bill and one of my school loans before I buy a house. I am almost at my goal amount to have in my bank account.
Where to Store Images – Update
I asked this question on Site Point’s forums. I think it is very good question where to store the images for your blog and other websites. I got bunch of different responses. Here is the list that I have came up with.
Flickr
Google Picasa
On their own domain
photobucket
Image Shack
TinyPic
SmugMug
Drop Shots
Care 2
This weekend was boring
This weekend has been quiet. I didn’t really do anything. I just worked on Tom’s laptop because he got a bad virus on it. On August 16th Andy and Jen are going to have a party which should be fun. August 18 – 24 I will be on call. I will write what happens that week.
If you need some picture frames I have a website for you. The website is called arttoframes.com. You can buy all different kinds of picture frames.
DNA Testing
If you are not sure if you are the father of a child then you should get DNA testing done. That way you are 100% sure that is your kid or not.
It reminds me of the Maury show. On his show he always had DNA testing done because fathers and mothers are wondering if they were the father or who was the father. One guest had 20 guys tested.
If you are in need of DNA Testing then you should go to dnacenter.com. Dnacenter.com is the exclusive provider of DNA testing for the Maury show, and most other daytime and court shows today. Most recently, Their testing was featured on Dr. Phil.
Dell Inspiron 6000 OS Recovery
I was working on my friends laptop. He got virus infection that I couldn’t get ride of. I eneded up doing the factory recovery. I know the laptop had a recovery partition but I didn’t know the key combination to get into it. I search and search I finally found the key combination. The key combination is CRTL + F11 pushing the keys at the same time at the the dell screen during post. Once you push them then you want to release them. It should go into the recovery partition so you can do a system restore.
It is a nice laptop that he got from dell. When you work on computers don’t think you are a failure if you can’t clean the virus. It is about time and money. You want to find the fastest and most economical way to fix the issue. He got a virus that I couldn’t fix so my last resort was to do the factory recovery. I asked him if there was anything he wanted me to saved and he said no. I was up and running within 20 to 30 mintues with a working laptop that is free of viruses.
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Where to store my images?
I was looking on my flickr page and flickr said that I am running out of space. I see that a lot of people use WordPress to upload their images and content. I think I am going to start doing that because people can search on google images and see a image that I posted on here this will bring in more users to read my blog and hopefully stick around. One good things about storing the content on this web hosting is that I am already paying for it. Why do I have to pay $24 for them to do what I can be doing on shared hosting package that I bought with unlimited hosting.
Where do most of you bloggers store your images that you post about?
How to change the permalink structure of your blog
In this post I will talk about changing the permalink structure on your blog. It is very easy to do and it will be good for search engines to crawl your new blog. By default WordPress likes to have the structure like this http://www.gregellison.net/?p=123. This is very confusing for the search engines and not very good for SEO or (Search Engine optimization). A permalink is a URL that points to a specific blog or forum entry after it has passed from the front page to the archives.
In WordPress 2.5 or higher go to Settings then to Permalinks. Once in the Permalinks section you can click on the custom radial circle, and type the following /%category%/%postname%/. What this will do is show the links of your posts as category/postname. You can also do /%postname%/%day%/. You have to find what works for you, but don’t have it default like the example I showed you above.
You also don’t want to conitnually change the permalink structure because google has probably crawled your site with the first way and once you do that your vistiors will get 404 pages on your blog because it is pointing to the old way. If you change the permalink structure stick with it to the end.
Autumn Ellison – Happy Birthday!!!
Autumn Happy Birthday!!!
Do you post daily?
I try to post daily, but sometimes I will miss a day. I will also try to write drafts so that I have posts that I can publish. I think you have to keep your posts consistent and not be all over the place. Your readers want fresh content.
How to install WordPress Phase 3
WordPress is one of the most popular blog platforms out there. WordPress is very easy to setup and you can find themes and plugins for WordPress.
You want to go to www.wordpress.org and click on the red square on the top right side that says download. You want to click on the red rectangle that is on the Download WordPress page. You want to download the file that fits your operating system. I will pick the zip file. You want to save the zip file to a location that you can get to. I usually scan my files that I download off the internet first. I have to plug the security part. You should always scan your files. I will open the zip file and extract it to a folder. I will then open my ftp program to upload my WordPress files to the directory that I picked for my multihosted domain. You also want to create a MySql database. I usually name my databases after my websites so I know what database goes to what website.
You then want to rename the wp-config-sample.php file to wp-config.php. You then want to fill in the database details.
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘putyourdbnamehere’); // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘usernamehere’); // Your MySQL username
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘yourpasswordhere’); // …and password
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value
These fields tell WordPress vital information about the database that you created. It wants to know the database name, the database user that has full access to the database, the password for the database user, and the database host.
After you have all these things done, then you want to open up your browser and go to yourblog.com/wp-admin/install.php to start the install process. At the first screen you want to type your Blog Title and your website email address.
After you type your title and your email then press Install WordPress button. The next screen is going to tell you that it was Successful at creating the blog and it will give you your username and password to get into the blog.
You should copy your password and then login to the blog. You want to change the temporary password right away before you forget it.
If you don’t want to go this route and if you have CPANEL with your webhosting you can use Fantastico. You can use Fantastico to automatically install any scripts that are listed in the menu.
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